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Trip Report: Blogging Practices Session at the JISC MRD Launch Event (#jiscmrd)
On Thursday, 1 December 2011 I attended the JISC Managing Research Data Launch Meeting which was held at the National College for School Leadership in Nottingham. Simon Hodson, the JISC Programme Manager for the Managing Research Data programme had invited me to run a workshop session on “Blogging Practices To Support Project Work“. This was felt to be an important topic for the funded projects as there is a contractual requirement for projects to provide blogs as part of their engagement and dissemination activities. Running...
read moreIntroduction: Natasha Bishop
Natasha Bishop works as the Events and Marketing Manager within the ISC. She is responsible for the organisation of events within the ISC programmes as well as promotion and outreach work. She has worked on a diverse portfolio of events including international conferences, online events and informal bar camps.
read moreIntroduction: Mark Dewey
Mark Dewey works as a Software Developer within the ISC with the bulk of his expertise in Java and web development. Recently Mark has moved into repository and metadata development activities. He is currently working on RepUK that explores the wealth of content within UK Institutional Repositories. In addition Mark is working on software that extracts keywords from mailing lists and shows technology and popular trends over time.
read moreIntroduction Mahendra Mahey
Mahendra Mahey works as a Project Manager and Research Officer within the ISC. Mahendra’s main areas of work involves management of the DevCSI project, which is now in its the third year. Mahendra is also a member of the JISC Observatory team. Recently Mahendra was the project manager for the JISC-funded CERIFy project.
read moreIntroduction: Talat Chaudhri
Talat Chaudhri works as a research officer within the ISC. In this role, Talat’s primary responsibility is to develop the Technical Foundations Web site for the JISC, which provides accessible, cutting-edge, cross-sector synthesis on a range of technical subjects for the JISC community. This work includes technical development on a Drupal platform as well as editorial control over the content of the site. On the content side, this includes writing topic pages, blog posts and other technical synthesis where these fall within his...
read moreIntroduction: Sally Lewis
Sally Lewis is a member of the UKOLN ISC Executive and oversees the management and support of the ISC at UKOLN.
read moreIntroduction: Richard Waller
Richard Waller is based at UKOLN at the University of Bath and has worked principally on UKOLN’s electronic publications, serving as editor of Ariadne Web Magazine since Spring 2003. In addition, he has also edited Cultivate Interactive Web Magazine as well as setting up and producing Focus on UKOLN. He has also worked as managing editor of the International Journal of Digital Curation, which UKOLN produces on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre, from its launch in 2006 until 2009. Over the course of 2011 he has been particularly...
read moreIntroduction: Stephanie Taylor
Stephanie Taylor works as a research officer within the ISC. In this role, Stephanie is involved in producing reports on emerging technologies and trends in libraries, institutional repositories and metadata for both funding bodies and stakeholders within the academic library and support communities. She also has a growing interest in research data and research information management. Her current work is focussed on: Metadata and its practical application in the HE workplace Emerging trends in library technologies Repository synthesis within...
read moreW3C Standards and Video
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which has a ‘responsibility for leading the Web to its full potential‘, has recently published an exemplary ‘Video about the World Wide Web Consortium‘. A couple of particularly interesting aspects of the video can be seen from the screenshot included here: The ‘Powered by 5′ logo (bottom right) signals that this video is embedded directly within HTML 5. The ‘Toggle captions’ button demonstrates how captions for video clips can easily be switched on and...
read moreTrip Report: ILI 2011
About ILI 2011 I recently attended the Internet Librarian International (ILI) 2011 conference which was held at the Tara Copthorne Hotel, London on 27-28th October. I have already summarised What Twitter Told Us About ILI 2011on the UK Web Focus blog, with Martin Hawksey providing a follow-up post on Visualising the #ili2011 Twitter archive. On the JISC Observatory blog I have provided a summary of ”What’s On The Technology Horizon? A Talk at the ILI 2011 Conference“. What Other People Have Said About ILI 2011 Other blog...
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